Locomotive ash-pan



W. W. SLOOUM, Jr.

LOOOMOTIVE ASH PAN.

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IVILLIAM W. SLOOUM, JR, OF REED CITY, MICHIGAN.

LOCOMOTIVE ASH-PAN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 320,183, dated June 16, 1885.

Application filed March 21, 1885. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM W. SLooUM, Jr., of Reed City, county of Osceola, Michigan, have invented a new and Improved Locomotive Ash-Pan, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of my invention is to provide a new and improved ash-pan for locomotives which can be dumped at the will of the fireman.

The invention consists in the arrangement and combination of parts and details, as will be fully set forth and described hereinafter.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a longitudinal sectional elevation of my improved locomotive ash-pan on the line 0000, Fig. 2, the pan being closed. Fig. 2 is a cross-sectional elevation of the same on the line y 1 Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal sectional elevation of part of the same, the pan being open. Fig. 4 is a longitudinal sectional elevation of part of a modification, the pan being open; and Fig. 5 is a side View of the 10- comotive boiler, showing the ash pan and damper attachment.

The bottom of the ash-pan A is formed of a series of transverse slats, B, provided with end pivots, O,which are passed to apertures in bars D, secured on the inner surfaces of the sides of the pan at the bottom edges. The edges of the slats B are provided with rabbets E for receiving the upper edges of the adjacent slats when the bottom of the pan is closed. The said rabbets are formed by half-beads F, formed on the under sides of the slats at the bottom edges, and projecting beyond the said bottom edges, and, if desired, half-beads G may be formed on the under sides of the slats near the upper edges. From theupper surface of each slat B a lug, I, projects, the upper ends of the said lugs being pivoted in a bar, H, having a U-shaped cross-section and extending over the slats. If desired, two lugs I may be formed on each slat, and then the lugs are pivoted to two bars. The bars H or the two bars are connected with a rod, J, which extends to the cab, and is used for swinging the slats up or down. The rod J is passed through one end of the ash-pan. In case the ash-pan is of sufficient height to swing the slats B upward, the pivots O are arranged at the bottom edges of the slats, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3; but when the ash-pan has not sufficient height to swing the entire slats upward the pivots are arranged short distances from the bottom edges, parts of the slats swinging up and parts swinging down. In the front of the ash-pan an upwardly-projecting part, M, is formed, which is provided in its top with a dampervalve, N, and at its bottom witha valve-gate, O, which can be opened to clean the ash-pan. When the valveN is raised, the air strikes the front of the fire-box P, passes down through the compartment M into the ash-pan, and up through the grate, whereby the air is heated before it passes through the coals, which is a great advantage. It also excludes snow, &c., in bad weather.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The combination, With an ash-pan, of a compartment, M, formed on the front end of the same and in front of the front part of the firebox, and of the damper-valve N in the top of the compartment M, substantially as herein shown and described.

WILLIAM W. SLOOUM, JR.

Witnesses:

Loo B. WINson, O. S. WOLFE. 

